Cookie Policy

Gas-elec Group (‘’we’’, ‘’us’’ or ‘’our’’) may use cookies and other tracking technologies when you visit our website (www.gas-elec.co.uk), including any other media form, media channel or mobile website related or connected to our website. This is to help customise the website and improve your experience.

What are cookies?

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) describes cookies as a small file of letters that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the website to recognise the user’s device. Cookies we can use could be both ”persistent” or ”session” cookies, we also may use ”essential” cookies to prevent fraudulent use and to authenticate users. Cookies can do a number of things including; remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket / ordered and counting the number of people visiting a website.

 

How gas-elec Group uses cookies

 

When you visit www.gas-elec.co.uk, we may place a number of different cookies files in your browser. This is to help us enable certain functions of our services to you, to provide analytics, storing preferences and enabling advertisements of our services. You can choose what cookie preferences you want within your browser. For more information see our ”managing cookies in your browser” section.

Marketing cookies we use on our website

We use several cookies on our website; please find below why we use them and what purpose they serve.

 

  • Cookies that register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitors uses the website.
  • Cookies used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers.
  • Cookies used by Google Adwords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
  • Cookies used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
  • Cookies used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers.
  • Cookies that try to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
  • Cookies that register a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user have seen.

Necessary/Preference and Statistics Cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

 

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks.

 

Statistics cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

 

Please click here to view what necessary, preference and statistic cookies gas-elec Group uses.

MyGE cookies

MyGE is a personalised portal for our clients, so they are able to track all completed / ongoing jobs at their property. MyGE uses necessary cookies. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions E.I. page navigation. Please see below for cookies that MyGE (https://myge.gas-elec.co.uk/login) uses.

 

ASP.NET_Sessionld – This is an HTTP type cookie. The purpose of this cookie is to preserve the visitor’s session state across page requests. 

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, there are a number of third-party cookies we use. Third-party cookies are used to report usage statistics. These cookies are listed below.

 

Google Analytics – Google Analytics is used to determine new sessions and visits to our website. These cookies are also stored for Google’s ReMarketing, AdWords and DoubleClick.

 

WordPress – When a user logs into WordPress (example.com/wp-admin), it stores two cookies; Your username and A double hashed copy of your password. These cookies are automatically set to expire within two weeks.

 

Social Media – Some pages on www.gas-elec.co.uk can load content from a 3rd party social media platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Managing cookies in your browser

Your internet browser will provide an option to disallow all or some cookies. You can find out more about using your browsers cookie settings either via the help menu in your browser or on the browser’s own website. Cookies can also be deleted by using your internet browser, but you must disallow them otherwise they will be reapplied the next time you visit a website. If you decide to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Contacts / GDPR Officer

If you have any further questions about our Cookie Policy or the data that is collected, please do not hesitate to contact our GDPR officer. Please find his details below.

 

Name: Alan Tychowski      |      Email address: alan.tychowski@gas-elec.co.uk      |      Contact number: 01359 257 316